Review large collections of online and published resources
you, or your group will need for organizing and mobilizing your
friends, family and community.

Justice
Policy Institute is a non-profit research and a public policy
organization dedicated to ending society's reliance on incarceration
and promoting effective and just solutions to social problems.

The
Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together prison/justice
policy activists with political economists to create popular
education workshops and materials which explore both the immediate
and long-term costs of incarceration on the individual, her/his
family, community and the nation. The goals of the Real Cost
of Prisons Project are to strengthen and deepen the organizing
capacity of grassroots prison/justice activists and to broaden
the public's understanding of the economic and social consequences
of mass incarceration.

Bottom's
Up, a Guide to Grassroots Organizing: A comprehensive, step-by-step
primer in how to educate the public and get the social change
you want. Useful for both beginning activists and seasoned organizers,
this how-to manual updates yearly by our friends at the November
Coalition.

Prison Reform Organizations

California
Prison Moratorium Project seeks to stop all public and private
prison construction in California. The money saved from California's
prison construction budget should be used to fund and actively
pursue alternatives to imprisonment for as many people as possible.

Castle of Hope is a advocacy group that focuses
on the treatment of prisoners and helping men and women when
they get out of prison.

Jeff Dicks
Coalition is an organization that focuses on getting medical
help for prisoners who are being medically neglected. We try
to stop the abuses committed on prisoners by guards, the rapes,
beatings and the killing of prisoners just because they can do
it.

New
Vision Organization. Due to the lack of interest and the
harsh sentencing policies enacted by the Federal and State government,
prisoners and their families are forced to live a life of hopelessness
and despair.

Restorative Justice Campaign. Restorative
justice programs are used in every region of the world, and applied
in virtually every phase of the criminal justice system.

Rutherford
Institute. Founded in 1982 by constitutional attorney and
author John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute is a civil
liberties organization that provides free legal services to people
whose constitutional and human rights have been threatened or
violated.